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Working Papers

2015

1. Cooperative Organizations as an Engine of Equitable Rural Economic Development
   Newcastle Business School Discussion Paper Series: Research on the Frontiers of Knowledge, The University of Newcastle, Australia View citations (2)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance (2014) View citations (1)

2014

2. Insights from behavioral economics on how labor markets work
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance

2012

3. Behavioural economics perspectives: Implications for policy and financial literacy
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance View citations (4)

2011

4. Co-operative Advantage
   Competition & Regulation Times, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation
5. Is There a Cooperative Advantage?
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation

1995

6. Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: The Historical Record, 1870-1986
   Working Papers, Saskatchewan - Department of Economics View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (1995)

1992

7. The Relative Prosperity of French-Canadian and Non-French Canadian Farms in Lower Canada, 1851-52: A Cross- Sectional Analysis of the 'Backwardness' Hypothesis
   Working Papers, Saskatchewan - Department of Economics

1991

8. The Volatility of Canadian Business Cycles, 1870-1986
   Working Papers, Saskatchewan - Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2018

1. Extending the theoretical lenses of behavioral economics through the sociological prisms of Gary Becker
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2018, 2, (1), 45-51

2017

2. John Tomer: Integrating human capital with human development: the path to a more productive and humane economy. Palgrave advances in behavioral economics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015
   Journal of Bioeconomics, 2017, 19, (2), 247-251
3. Policy Consequences of Multiple Equilibria and the Indeterminacy of Economic Outcomes in a Boundedly Rational World: Closing the System with Non-Economic Variables
   Forum for Social Economics, 2017, 46, (3), 234-251
4. The importance of co-operatives to the New Zealand economy: Constructing a co-operative economy
   International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44, (12), 2086-2096

2016

5. IS THERE A KINK IN THE HAPPINESS LITERATURE?
   APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2016, 10, (2-3), 10

2013

6. Economic Freedom, Material Wellbeing, and the Good Capitalist Governance Index
   Journal of Economic Issues, 2013, 47, (1), 247-268 View citations (2)

2012

7. Implications of behavioural economics for financial literacy and public policy
   Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2012, 41, (5), 677-690 View citations (17)
8. The Living Wage, Economic Efficiency, and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in a Competitive Market Economy
   Forum for Social Economics, 2012, 41, (2-3), 166-186

2010

9. Freedom to Choose and Choice X-inefficiencies: Human and Consumer Rights, and Positive and Normative Implications of Choice Behavior
   Review of Social Economy, 2010, 68, (4), 395-411

2009

10. A Behavioral-Institutional Model of Endogenous Growth and Induced Technical Change
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2009, 43, (3), 685-714 View citations (6)
11. The transition process from alternative theoretical prisms: A comparative analysis of Eastern European and former Soviet Block economies
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2009, 36, (7), 716-742

2008

12. How much economic freedom is necessary for economic growth? Theory and evidence
    Economics Bulletin, 2008, 15, (2), 1-20 View citations (15)

2007

13. Economic growth, 'globalisation' and labour power
    Global Business and Economics Review, 2007, 9, (2/3), 297-318 View citations (1)

2006

14. Involuntary unemployment, macroeconomic policy, and a behavioral model of the firm: Why high real wages need not cause high unemployment
    Research in Economics, 2006, 60, (2), 97-111
15. Opening-up the objective function: choice behavior and economic and non-economic variables—core and marginal altruism
    Economics Bulletin, 2006, 4, (33), 1-7 View citations (7)

2005

16. Behavioral Economics, Power, Rational Inefficiencies, Fuzzy Sets, and Public Policy
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2005, 39, (3), 683-706 View citations (1)
17. The economics of ethics revisited and importance of economics: A response to the critics
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2005, 26, (5), 774-778 View citations (2)
18. The ethical economy and competitive markets: Reconciling altruistic, moralistic, and ethical behavior with the rational economic agent and competitive markets
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2005, 26, (5), 732-757 View citations (5)

2004

19. Introduction
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2004, 33, (5), 523-525
20. Statistical significance, path dependency, and the culture of journal publication
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2004, 33, (5), 651-663 View citations (8)
21. The Nobel Prize in behavioral and experimental economics: a contextual and critical appraisal of the contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Cernon Smith
    Review of Political Economy, 2004, 16, (1), 3-41 View citations (4)
22. Why Unemployment Insurance Might Not Only Be Good for the Soul, It Might Also Be Good for the Economy
    Review of Social Economy, 2004, 62, (4), 517-541 View citations (2)

2003

23. Economic Growth and Income Equality: Implications of a Behavioural Model of Economic Growth for Pub lic Policy
    Canadian Public Policy, 2003, 29, (s1), 87-118
24. On the Natural Intelligence of Women in a World of Constrained Choice: How the Feminization of Clerical Work Contributed to Gender Pay Equality in Early Twentieth Century Canada
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2003, 37, (4), 1045-1074 View citations (2)
25. Staple theory and export‐led growth: constructing differential growth
    Australian Economic History Review, 2003, 43, (3), 230-255 View citations (19)

2002

26. The Journal of Socio-Economics: the road to the future
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2002, 31, (4), 323-325

2001

27. A behavioral model of labor supply: casting some light into the black box of income-leisure choice
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2001, 30, (3), 199-219 View citations (15)
28. A revisionist view of the economic implications of child labor regulations
    Forum for Social Economics, 2001, 30, (2), 1-23 View citations (1)
    Also in Forum for Social Economics, 2001, 30, (2), 1-23 (2001) View citations (1)
29. Culture, human agency, and economic theory: culture as a determinant of material welfare
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2001, 30, (5), 379-391 View citations (11)
30. When green isn't mean: economic theory and the heuristics of the impact of environmental regulations on competitiveness and opportunity cost
    Ecological Economics, 2001, 36, (1), 31-44 View citations (14)

2000

31. A behavioral model of path dependency: the economics of profitable inefficiency and market failure
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2000, 29, (2), 127-145 View citations (13)

1999

32. A Theory of Population Growth When Women Really Count
    Kyklos, 1999, 52, (1), 27-43 View citations (3)
33. NEW ESTIMATES OF HOURS OF WORK AND REAL INCOME IN CANADA FROM THE 1880s TO 1930: LONG‐RUN TRENDS AND WORKERS' PREFERENCES
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1999, 45, (3), 353-372 View citations (1)
34. The Methodology of Economics and the Survival Principle Revisited and Revised: Some Welfare and Public Policy Implications of Modeling the Economic Agent
    Review of Social Economy, 1999, 57, (4), 427-449 View citations (12)

1998

35. A High-Wage Path to Economic Growth and Development
    Challenge, 1998, 41, (1), 91-104 View citations (3)

1997

36. Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance. By Gregory P. Marchildon · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xvi + 348 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-8020-0740-6
    Business History Review, 1997, 71, (1), 130-132

1996

37. Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal · New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xvi + 304 pp. Figures, illustrations, biographical references, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6
    Business History Review, 1996, 70, (4), 614-616
38. Gender pay inequality and occupational change in Canada, 1900-1930
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1996, 25, (3), 285-309 View citations (1)

1995

39. Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: The Historical Record, 1870–1986
    Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1995, 17, (4), 561-577 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (1995)
40. Labor Market Discrimination, Pay Inequality, and Effort Variability: An Alternative to the Neoclassical Model
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1995, 21, (2), 157-169 View citations (3)
41. Preface
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1995, 24, (3), 409-410

1993

42. Human agency as a determinant of material welfare
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1993, 22, (3), 199-218
43. Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914. By Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 289. $39.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1993, 53, (3), 703-704

1992

44. Business Cycle Volatility in Developed Market Economies, 1870-1986: Revisions and Conjectures
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1992, 18, (3), 259-275 View citations (3)
45. REVISED REAL CANADIAN GNP ESTIMATES AND CANADIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1870–1926
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1992, 38, (4), 455-474 View citations (1)

1988

46. Economic development with high wages: An historical perspective
    Explorations in Economic History, 1988, 25, (2), 198-224 View citations (6)

1987

47. A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth: 1870-1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation)
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1987, 20, (1), 86-113 View citations (2)
48. The Rise and Fall? of Montreal: A Case Study of Urban Growth, Regional Economic Expansion and National Development. By Benjamin Higgins. Moncton, New Brunswick: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1986. Pp. x, 256. $12.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (1), 290-291
49. Évolutions et éclatement du monde rural: France et Québec, XIIe XXe siècles, sous la direction de JOSEPH GOY et JEAN-PIERRE WALLOT. — Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales et Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1986, 519 p
    L'Actualité Economique, 1987, 63, (1), 155-157

1986

50. Resource Endowments and Location Theory in Economic History: A Case Study of Quebec and Ontario at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (4), 999-1009

Edited books

2017

1. Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing

Chapters

2017

1. Introduction to smart decision-making
   Chapter 1 in Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, 2017, pp 1-8
2. Rational inefficiency: smart thinking, bounded rationality and the scientific basis for economic failure and success
   Chapter 2 in Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, 2017, pp 11-42

2008

3. The Social Economics of Growth and Income Inequality
   Chapter 14 in The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2008 View citations (2)

Editor

1. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics)
   Elsevier